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Jewellery Techniques Series
Midland Junction Arts Centre – Workshop Over two days learn specific tools and techniques to turn scrap copper and plastics into unique wearable jewels. In the first session you will learn to strip copper electrical wire from its plastic sheath and then recycle it to make your own jewellery. You will learn cold forming techniques…
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AOTM x Sick AF
Oh yeah, it’s time! TOMORROW NIGHT, 27th of Feb 2026, Sick AF the touring exhibition will be launched in Kepa Kurl / Esperance at the Cannery Arts Centre. The show extends all the way until March 28, and in that interval I’m going to head down for the artist talk Making Through Illness on Thu,…
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open studio 2025
Y’all, we did it, we’re in! Please come help us celebrate the launch of the new house and studio, and the good friends who made it all happen. Katherine and Marco of vittinoAshe – our architects – will be around to talk house, I’ll be upstairs with studio deputy Susannah chatting art and jewellery, while…
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IOTA Craft Co-lab Symposium
Team! The IOTA Curatorium has been assembled, and they are CURRENTLY IN BOORLOO (Perth) checking out the neighbourhood, in advance of making some great calls as to who gets into the next Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in 2027. If you want the chance to meet the team – get on the ground floor, as they…
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I ♥ ADC
ADC has just staged THE Helen Britton retrospective, endowing her with the Master Maker – Living Treasure of Australian Craft title, the latest in the series. That show, I’m reliably informed, will travel around the country, so I’m not as sad as I could be that I’m heading over just DAYS after it has been…
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Cheongju 2025 – the blossoming
The Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025: Recrafting Tomorrow is live, presenting uplifting, thoughtful, soulful, and just plain jaw-dropping craft until the 2nd of November. The Competition Exhibition is incredible, and peppered with an eye-bulging array of craft-forms. The Main Exhibition (of which myself, Jacky Cheng, the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Susie Vickery are all a part)…
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Workshop – Thursday 11/9
Hello friends! Just a quickie – I’m back and full of stories from my South Korean Cheongju Craft Biennale adventure – keep an eye here and on socials for a bountiful week in review all this week… AND I’m leading a short class on reclaiming electrical copper wire to make jewellery this Thursday at MJAC. Please come…
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The Poetics of Place II
From the Atta Gallery website: Poetics of Place ll by Australian Artists, Curated by Melinda Young May 15, 2025 – July 13, 2025 The Poetics of Place brings together the work of 16 makers across contemporary craft, object-based and textile practices whose work explores, expands and troubles the concept of ‘place’ in post-colonial Australia and Aotearoa.…
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On the horizon…
It may look like a clean slate, but it’s the incoming traffic just above the horizon line that’s widening eyes and setting my little duck-legs to paddlin’. March: Heading to Munich for the jewellery-obsessive’s most favoured/feared hang, Munich Jewellery Week. No, I’m not in the IHM’s one and only Schmuck exhibition this year (but great…
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Banner + Badge – New Website!
The decade-long wait for new content on my main website is over! There are not enough emoji to convey the effort expended, and the gratitude and relief to have it up and out in the world. https://www.melissacameron.net/exhibition/banner_and_badge/ You just gotta see it for yourself 😉 Before I get into that, and the show, I need…
